Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While praising Harvard's excellent record at a time when 'destructive pranks reach an all-time high," Dean Bender felt that the perennial spirit of havoc that precedes each Yale game demands a clarification of University policy regarding the unlimited use of spray-guns...
Salzmann pointed to the Czech law which requires that every adult vote or face trial and the recent elections which U.S. observers declared "completely free" as showing the democratic spirit in Czechoslovakia...
Married. Haila Stoddard, 33, topnotch Broadway replacement (starring roles in Blithe Spirit, Dream Girl) ; and Broadway Producer Harald Martin Bromley, 37; she for the second time (her first was Tobacco Road Playwright Jack Kirkland), he for the first; in Los Angeles...
...said that Marxist materialism negated Christian insistence on the importance of the spirit, that the mechanistic and materialistic conception of history denied the reality of Providence, and that Communism emphasized unduly the material urges of man and the importance of the class struggle...
...approach or opinion on almost any subject. This breakdown of the undergraduates into group after self-sufficient group is probably the most significant psychological factor in the College today. Schizophrenia, it might be called, and it is unique and potent: not even the most basic conception of "school spirit" serves in Cambridge as it does at New Haven or Princeton to tie atomized particles of the student body together. Here one proud band isolates itself behind the classic walls of its clubhouse, another huddles around its extra-curricular typewriter, a third feeds rich tears to its social conscience twice...